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Here we are in chippewas
of rama first nation!

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[cheering & applauding]

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Rama, on the shores
of lake couchiching.

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If you want a showcase
of chippewa culture...

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If you want to
see dreamcatchers,

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You want to
hear drumming...

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You want to hear the
ojibwe language...

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In rama,
you hit the jackpot.

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[laughing]

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Yes, there is
a casino also.

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[laughing]

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And I'll admit,
I made the mistake-

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When I first moved to
toronto, on the radio,

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You hear ads for
a casino rama,

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And I thought, "rama",
they just stuck it on

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To make it sound better.

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-[laughing]
-like dollarama.

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Or like in hockey,
the spinorama.

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[laughing]

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I did not know that
rama was a community.

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Now I know, and it's
a beautiful community.

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I tell you, when I
first got here, I...

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I went to take a picture
that I was hoping would

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Encompass the
beauty of the area.

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So I took one of those
sweeping pictures

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Where you your turn.

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You sort of pan across...

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A panorama!

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[laughing]

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[cheering & applauding]

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When you grow up in a
small town in newfoundland,

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You see that people have
a sense of humour

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About hard times.

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Check, check.

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I turned that into a
career and hit the road.

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[mc] mr. Jonny harris!

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Now I'm on a mission to find
the funny in the places

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You'd least expect,

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Canada's struggling
small towns.

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Towns that are
against the ropes,

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But hanging in there...

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Still laughing in the
face of adversity.

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This is chippewas of
rama first nation.

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♪

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[cheering & applauding]

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The chippewas of rama,
the people of the deer.

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But that name has taken
a bit of a journey.

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Earlier it was the
chippewa of mnjikaning.

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And then that changed to
rama for the township.

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But chippewa is ojibwe.

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Ojibwe are anishinaabe.

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Chippewas of rama
is the band.

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I guess you could have
went with "band of rama,"

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But that sounds a bit too
much like bananarama...

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Which is also a band.

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[laughing]

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♪

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To find out who put the
casino in casino rama,

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You need to know who
put the casino in rama.

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It was easy for me
to find out.

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I just listened
to a ted... Talk.

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Chief ted williams.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Chief ted told me
in the early 1800s,

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The chippewas of rama were
moved to cold water, ontario.

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Cold water was basically
an experiment...

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Where you put the
first nation community

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Together and, ah...

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Christianize them,

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Teach them how to farm.

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Meanwhile, we already had
everything that we needed.

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They wanted the ojibwe to
farm on their assigned land

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And not move around,

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Stay on that assigned land,

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Because the ojibwe,
for hunting and fishing,

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Had been semi-nomadic,
which I don't want to

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Trivialize by comparing
to my own life.

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Although in grade three
I did have catholic nuns

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Tell me to stop
moving around.

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[laughing]

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I wasn't semi-nomadic,
but I was squirmy.

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[laughing]

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But there was a lot
of settlers coming in,

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And it was good farmland,

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And they wanted
that farmland.

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The chippewas were
farming so well,

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The government realized that
it was good farming land,

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And then moved
them off of it.

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And, land was
found here,

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Land that was available
and affordable.

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We bought our own land.

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Right here.

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And chief ted explained to me
that it was cheap and

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Available because
it was very rocky.

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It's not great for farming.

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Hard times fell on the people.

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Chief ted said that
when he was a kid,

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You could tell when you were
driving through the community.

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Most homes had
no running water.

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We had 70 to 80%
unemployment.

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Things were dire.

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Then in 1993,
a decision was made

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To build a massive casino...

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In a first nations community.

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14 communities
submitted applications.

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You only have
one shot at this.

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And so, we covered
all the bases.

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Chief ted was determined.

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He said the
community needed it.

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Rama would take
casi-no for an answer.

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[laughing]

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I get a phone call.
He basically says,

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"teddy, they're coming.
We won."

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And then in 1994,
it was announced

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That rama would
get the casino.

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♪

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And the casino was a massive
success right off the bat.

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Things just took right off.

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So the first year of the
opening of the casino,

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We had over
3400 employees.

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It wasn't long before the
casino was making

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$550 million a year.

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And thanks to the casino,

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Rama got a water
treatment plant,

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A wastewater facility,

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A new school,
a seniors centre,

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A paid fire department with
state of the art fire trucks,

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Fancy trucks.

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I'm not a big gambler, but
if I ever won big money

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At a casino, first thing
I would get myself...

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Wastewater
treatment facility.

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[laughing]

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What has it meant
for the community?

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Well, it's quality housing.

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We have jobs.
We generate revenue.

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He had an emotional moment
when he realized

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What a success it was.

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He said one night he was
working at the casino

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'til about 12:30.

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And when he left, he was
driving down the road,

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And he started counting
the amount of cars

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That were driving
to the casino.

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And if you've ever
watched the movie...

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"field of dreams",
there was just

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A straight line
of headlights.

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He said he counted 240
cars in 240 seconds.

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-I actually had to stop.
-Yeah.

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I had to pull off to
the side of the road.

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I get emotional thinking
about it right now.

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Yeah.

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I think it was a good thing
he was kind of

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Down the road, though...

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Because if he had done
that at the casino,

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I think you can get in big
trouble for counting cars...

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-[laughing]
-at a casino.

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[laughing &
applauding]

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♪

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When it comes to
catching dreams,

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In rama, you've got
just the thing.

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I learned a little about
dreaming big

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When I visited bob
and bela williams.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Bob is well known in rama as
a builder of dreamcatchers.

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And dreamcatchers,
of course,

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Are common to many
indigenous cultures,

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But are particularly
an ojibwe thing.

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You have to have faith in it.

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It's just not a thing
you hang on the wall.

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Bob said evil spirits get
sucked into it, right,

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And they get trapped.

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If evil comes near it...
[whooshing]

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Trapped inside
the dreamcatcher.

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And I can't help
but picture-

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Remember the bad guys in one
of the superman movies,

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In the pane of glass, and
they get stuck in there.

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-[laughing]
-they can't get out.

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The tradition was
lost for a while.

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Our people lost that
teaching a long time ago.

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So nowadays everybody
goes to the steel hoop.

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A dreamcatcher shouldn't
have steel in it.

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Bob is known for making
big dreamcatchers,

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And he began to dream
about making the

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Biggest one ever
in the world.

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So, he looked up to
see if there was

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A record, and there is.

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It's recognized by the

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Guinness book of
world records.

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So, where is the biggest
dreamcatcher in the world?

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-That was in lithuania.
-Lithuania?

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Lithuanians decided to
build a huge dreamcatcher,

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But as bob said,
he doesn't even

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Really consider it
a dreamcatcher.

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A real dreamcatcher
has to look like that.

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Feathers on it.

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Theirs looks like that.

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It's just a circle.

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That is just a circle
until I put feathers on it.

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It's not a dream catcher.

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And who determined that
that should get the record?

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Like the guinness home
offices are in london.

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So you got a bunch of
people from England

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Going to lithuania.

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They probably arrived in
lithuania, and were like,

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"oh, bloody me,
that's a big circle."

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[laughing]

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"bugger me, lithuania,

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I think you've done it,
old chap."

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[laughing]

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But the long and the short
of it is bob decided that

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The record should
be here in rama.

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When we first started off,
I had to go

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Across the road
and found 85 trees.

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It took 85 trees.

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It took 7000 feet of rope.

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I just thought, well,
this is gonna take

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A lot of people to do.

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I invited the people out,
come on out.

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Participate in this.
This is big.

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And when bela put the
word out to the community,

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Over 100 volunteers came.

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People worked in the heat,

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And getting eaten
alive by bugs,

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And helped make this
massive dreamcatcher.

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Bela said she put in
so many hours herself.

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She did a lot of sewing.

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Well, if you're not careful
at what you're doing,

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You sew yourself to it.

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[laughing]

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She said more than once she
sewed herself into the thing.

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[laughing]

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The community came in
and helped lift it up.

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It was a beautiful day.
We had the school.

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We had every
department in rama,

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The firetruck,
the policemen.

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Everybody was there.

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It's finished, it's hung up
in the powwow grounds.

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This massive,

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43-foot diameter
dreamcatcher.

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Which, by the way, is over
10 feet larger across

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Than the one in lithuania.

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[cheering & applauding]

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This thing is so big,

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Bob figures it weighs
about 2,000 pounds.

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And that's the
curb weight.

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That's before you got any
evil spirits in there.

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[laughing]

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It's helped.
It's doing its job.

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It's bringing
everybody together.

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But we made one.

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In order to sort of show me
the basics of it,

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Bob had a table,

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And we were bending these
willow twigs around the nails,

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And then we started the
webbing with string.

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That's all right,
that's all right.

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00:11:06,366 --> 00:11:08,265
If you get the rope
around that hoop...

257
00:11:08,301 --> 00:11:10,435
And it all connects to a
smaller hoop in the middle,

258
00:11:10,504 --> 00:11:13,037
And the idea is, if you've
got it all done right...

259
00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,172
There you go! Woo!

260
00:11:15,208 --> 00:11:18,643
When you take it off that
frame, it will keep its form.

261
00:11:18,645 --> 00:11:21,846
Jonny, this is your
first dreamcatcher.

262
00:11:21,981 --> 00:11:24,315
-Absolutely my first.
-You did wonderful.

263
00:11:24,384 --> 00:11:25,316
It looked pretty good.

264
00:11:25,385 --> 00:11:27,252
It doesn't have the
feathers yet, so...

265
00:11:27,254 --> 00:11:28,586
Technically,
it's just a hoop.

266
00:11:28,588 --> 00:11:31,122
But bob said it's
worth finishing.

267
00:11:31,158 --> 00:11:32,923
It will have
feathers in it here.

268
00:11:32,959 --> 00:11:34,391
And it's pretty big.

269
00:11:34,528 --> 00:11:36,360
I had a new respect
for the one that's

270
00:11:36,430 --> 00:11:37,996
Down in the
powwow grounds,

271
00:11:37,998 --> 00:11:42,066
Because that one is easily
over 100 times the size

272
00:11:42,135 --> 00:11:45,370
Of the one that we made,
but still, this one...

273
00:11:45,505 --> 00:11:47,405
Like it wouldn't fit on
your rear view mirror.

274
00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:49,273
[laughing]

275
00:11:49,309 --> 00:11:51,242
So where does it stand
now as far as the

276
00:11:51,377 --> 00:11:52,877
Guinness book of
world records?

277
00:11:52,946 --> 00:11:54,345
When are they gonna
come take a look?

278
00:11:54,381 --> 00:11:56,247
It doesn't
matter to us now.

279
00:11:56,316 --> 00:11:58,349
-We know we have the record.
-Yeah.

280
00:11:58,351 --> 00:12:00,585
-We have record.
-It's there, it's there.

281
00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,320
If anybody shows up
from England,

282
00:12:02,389 --> 00:12:04,421
Make sure they're from
guinness and not from the

283
00:12:04,458 --> 00:12:06,157
British museum
of world culture.

284
00:12:06,226 --> 00:12:07,925
[laughing]

285
00:12:07,994 --> 00:12:09,059
If anybody shows up
from that museum,

286
00:12:09,096 --> 00:12:11,829
And they want to hang on
to it for a little bit...

287
00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:14,199
Just, they like
to collect things.

288
00:12:14,334 --> 00:12:16,300
[laughing]

289
00:12:16,336 --> 00:12:18,335
[cheering & applauding]

290
00:12:25,345 --> 00:12:27,479
While I was here in rama,
I learned about

291
00:12:27,614 --> 00:12:31,048
A traditional method
of catching fish...

292
00:12:31,084 --> 00:12:33,952
With chief lady bird
and tim shilling.

293
00:12:33,954 --> 00:12:37,054
[cheering & applauding]

294
00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:39,524
Chief lady bird,
she's not a chief chief.

295
00:12:39,593 --> 00:12:42,327
But she is, like myself,
an incredible artist.

296
00:12:42,462 --> 00:12:44,395
[laughing]

297
00:12:44,397 --> 00:12:47,198
And she spent
9 years in toronto.

298
00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,199
Painted a lot of walls,

299
00:12:48,235 --> 00:12:50,068
We've done murals in
schools with students,

300
00:12:50,203 --> 00:12:53,471
And used that as a teaching
tool about our culture and...

301
00:12:53,473 --> 00:12:55,940
Treaties,
language, etc.

302
00:12:56,009 --> 00:12:57,408
We had a lot of mural jobs,
so I needed to get

303
00:12:57,477 --> 00:12:59,344
The sketches done quicker.

304
00:12:59,346 --> 00:13:02,180
So I got an ipad and taught
myself digital illustration.

305
00:13:02,315 --> 00:13:05,016
She designed a
logo for xbox.

306
00:13:05,151 --> 00:13:08,452
She did an emoji for twitter
a couple of years ago,

307
00:13:08,488 --> 00:13:11,389
And this was to represent
all indigenous groups across

308
00:13:11,458 --> 00:13:13,558
Turtle island, but I think
it'd be cool if she designed

309
00:13:13,693 --> 00:13:16,361
One specifically for
chippewas of rama,

310
00:13:16,496 --> 00:13:19,497
And then she could say she
got her band on twitter.

311
00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:23,368
[laughing & applauding]

312
00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:25,369
She said when
she moved back,

313
00:13:25,405 --> 00:13:28,105
That's when she met
her partner, tim.

314
00:13:28,141 --> 00:13:30,107
And then we kind of all
became a family, like,

315
00:13:30,143 --> 00:13:32,277
Right at once, you know,
the kids, and...

316
00:13:32,412 --> 00:13:34,445
-Yeah?
-It just worked out.

317
00:13:34,514 --> 00:13:38,616
She was telling me about
her family spearfishing.

318
00:13:38,652 --> 00:13:40,685
It's like a very communal...

319
00:13:40,687 --> 00:13:42,219
Connecting time for us.

320
00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:44,121
You got it.
He's huge!

321
00:13:44,191 --> 00:13:45,323
I did it!

322
00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:47,391
And daddy helped.
Good job, daddy.

323
00:13:47,427 --> 00:13:49,193
And then eating something
that we catch as a family and

324
00:13:49,262 --> 00:13:51,028
Clean as a family
has always been like,

325
00:13:51,097 --> 00:13:52,263
The greatest feeling.

326
00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:54,932
And they're both big
on sustainability.

327
00:13:55,068 --> 00:13:57,001
And one way you ensure that

328
00:13:57,136 --> 00:13:59,070
There's fish to
catch in the future,

329
00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:03,007
When they catch a fish,
they will milk it.

330
00:14:03,076 --> 00:14:05,075
We love doing that because
we want to see, like,

331
00:14:05,111 --> 00:14:07,478
The continuance of
their life cycle.

332
00:14:07,547 --> 00:14:09,146
Tim explained this to me.

333
00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:12,250
He had a couple of bass
that he brought to show me.

334
00:14:12,385 --> 00:14:14,552
When we're sexing the fish,
we'd just be looking

335
00:14:14,554 --> 00:14:17,088
Right here at its
private parts.

336
00:14:17,223 --> 00:14:19,156
Pushing down,
and then we'd see

337
00:14:19,158 --> 00:14:20,558
Either eggs or milk
come down.

338
00:14:20,627 --> 00:14:23,994
You're squeezing out the...

339
00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:26,163
The reproductive...
Milk.

340
00:14:26,233 --> 00:14:27,564
[laughing]

341
00:14:27,601 --> 00:14:30,902
You're squeezing out the
eggs and sperm

342
00:14:31,037 --> 00:14:34,038
Into a bucket, and you
stir that with a stick.

343
00:14:34,173 --> 00:14:35,973
Is it getting warm
in here, or...?

344
00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:38,576
[laughing]

345
00:14:38,578 --> 00:14:40,244
Nothing too crazy.

346
00:14:40,247 --> 00:14:42,079
We don't want to
wreck the eggs.

347
00:14:42,148 --> 00:14:45,116
We put them back in a nice
spot where it's shallow,

348
00:14:45,118 --> 00:14:46,617
And we know that
they're gonna make it.

349
00:14:46,686 --> 00:14:51,055
You know, it's about
ensuring future generations.

350
00:14:51,190 --> 00:14:53,191
It's the same reason that
I got some of my-

351
00:14:53,193 --> 00:14:54,992
I froze some of my sperm.

352
00:14:55,128 --> 00:14:56,261
[laughing]

353
00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:58,062
Which is easier than
you think, actually.

354
00:14:58,197 --> 00:15:00,331
You just sharpie the date
on a margarine container.

355
00:15:00,466 --> 00:15:02,066
Put it in the freezer.

356
00:15:02,068 --> 00:15:04,635
[laughing]

357
00:15:04,638 --> 00:15:07,171
Anyway, we went
out in the boat.

358
00:15:07,173 --> 00:15:08,906
Chief lady bird, and tim,

359
00:15:08,942 --> 00:15:11,075
And their son, colton,
and myself.

360
00:15:11,144 --> 00:15:13,544
Sometimes we spend a
lot of hours out here.

361
00:15:13,546 --> 00:15:15,847
Sometimes we're only
here for ten minutes.

362
00:15:15,982 --> 00:15:18,816
Sometimes colton gets cold,
and he wants to go home.

363
00:15:18,952 --> 00:15:20,351
[laughing]

364
00:15:20,353 --> 00:15:22,353
Spear fishing is-
it's not easy.

365
00:15:22,488 --> 00:15:24,055
You go out at night.

366
00:15:24,124 --> 00:15:27,158
And, they told me that
you turn on a flashlight,

367
00:15:27,227 --> 00:15:28,826
And then when you
find a fish,

368
00:15:28,895 --> 00:15:30,395
You turn the flashlight off.

369
00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:33,031
Turn that on.
Turn it off as needed.

370
00:15:35,068 --> 00:15:38,235
I didn't know why you had
to turn the flashlight off,

371
00:15:38,305 --> 00:15:40,571
But I'll take a
stab in the dark.

372
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,574
[laughing]

373
00:15:43,643 --> 00:15:46,444
He said sometimes the fish
can get spooked by the light,

374
00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:49,180
So you want to use it
as little as possible.

375
00:15:49,249 --> 00:15:51,615
And then, the challenge is
you got to try to spear

376
00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:54,352
Where you think the
fish is gonna be.

377
00:15:54,421 --> 00:15:56,054
Right there, right there,
right there.

378
00:16:00,961 --> 00:16:03,494
-Did you get one?
-Hm... No.

379
00:16:03,563 --> 00:16:04,996
[laughing]

380
00:16:05,065 --> 00:16:07,865
Oh, I caught a big stick.

381
00:16:07,867 --> 00:16:11,836
But, we didn't end up
getting a fish.

382
00:16:11,905 --> 00:16:13,938
Although now, at the end
of the episode, we can say,

383
00:16:14,073 --> 00:16:16,407
"no fish were harmed in the
making of this episode."

384
00:16:16,443 --> 00:16:18,075
[laughing]

385
00:16:18,111 --> 00:16:19,477
You know what? Even though
we didn't catch anything,

386
00:16:19,546 --> 00:16:21,278
It was still so nice
to be out here.

387
00:16:21,314 --> 00:16:23,147
Because it was such
a beautiful night,

388
00:16:23,216 --> 00:16:25,316
And we were all feeling
pretty good about it.

389
00:16:25,318 --> 00:16:27,017
And then chief lady bird,

390
00:16:27,153 --> 00:16:30,221
She taught me an
anishinaabemowin word.

391
00:16:30,290 --> 00:16:33,057
Have you ever heard the
word, mino-bimaadiziwin?

392
00:16:33,126 --> 00:16:35,226
-Mino-bimaadiziwin.
-Yep.

393
00:16:35,361 --> 00:16:38,595
And this means "to be
living a good life".

394
00:16:38,631 --> 00:16:40,565
Being with family,
being on the land.

395
00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:42,533
Continuing our teachings,
passing them on.

396
00:16:42,569 --> 00:16:43,967
Being together.

397
00:16:44,004 --> 00:16:45,903
Being in good relation
with everything.

398
00:16:45,905 --> 00:16:47,505
I think we got that down pat.

399
00:16:47,507 --> 00:16:48,573
[laughing]

400
00:16:48,575 --> 00:16:51,843
But I did catch one of
chief lady bird's fish

401
00:16:51,978 --> 00:16:53,378
In one of her murals.

402
00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:55,046
At the social
services building,

403
00:16:55,048 --> 00:16:58,382
She has a mural of her and
her family spearfishing.

404
00:16:58,385 --> 00:17:00,351
And I think tim
is in the mural.

405
00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:03,087
There's a man standing
there with a spear,

406
00:17:03,123 --> 00:17:06,123
And he's got a
lot of hair...

407
00:17:06,192 --> 00:17:09,494
But I don't know if he's got
quite enough hair to be tim.

408
00:17:09,496 --> 00:17:11,529
[laughing]

409
00:17:11,531 --> 00:17:13,998
[cheering & applauding]

410
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:21,572
♪ [indigenous
singing & drumming] ♪

411
00:17:21,641 --> 00:17:24,408
♪

412
00:17:24,411 --> 00:17:26,344
I was lucky that my visit
here coincided

413
00:17:26,346 --> 00:17:28,178
With first nations day,

414
00:17:28,214 --> 00:17:31,215
And it always begins
with a sunrise ceremony.

415
00:17:31,350 --> 00:17:34,118
And then there's the
parade, a big parade.

416
00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,521
Big for a small
community parade.

417
00:17:36,523 --> 00:17:38,222
[laughing]

418
00:17:38,258 --> 00:17:40,224
[cheering]

419
00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,927
And it's nice.
All the kids come out.

420
00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:45,296
I saw chief ted
was leading off.

421
00:17:45,365 --> 00:17:47,098
I saw the fire trucks,

422
00:17:47,167 --> 00:17:49,801
But nothing compared
to bela's float.

423
00:17:49,936 --> 00:17:53,037
[cheering & applauding]

424
00:17:53,106 --> 00:17:54,372
Woo-oo!

425
00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:55,573
When bela showed up,

426
00:17:55,575 --> 00:17:57,875
All the kids were
cheering her name.

427
00:17:57,911 --> 00:18:00,111
Bela! Bela!

428
00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:03,381
[cheering]
woo-ooh!

429
00:18:03,516 --> 00:18:06,484
Bela had a mobility scooter
done up to look like

430
00:18:06,619 --> 00:18:09,186
A traditional ojibwe canoe.

431
00:18:09,255 --> 00:18:12,190
As far as I know, I think
traditional ojibwe canoe

432
00:18:12,192 --> 00:18:13,524
Is made out
of birch bark,

433
00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,861
And hers was made out of
ikea boxes, but still.

434
00:18:16,863 --> 00:18:19,096
[laughing]

435
00:18:19,132 --> 00:18:21,966
Might not be seaworthy,
but definitely worth seeing.

436
00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:23,934
[laughing]

437
00:18:24,003 --> 00:18:26,570
And then they
have a ballgame.

438
00:18:26,639 --> 00:18:29,339
I didn't know much about it,
and I found myself

439
00:18:29,375 --> 00:18:32,610
Playing catch up
with marsha shilling.

440
00:18:32,612 --> 00:18:36,914
[cheering & applauding]

441
00:18:36,983 --> 00:18:38,916
On first nations day,
we always celebrate.

442
00:18:39,051 --> 00:18:41,352
It's kind of like a
competitive game

443
00:18:41,354 --> 00:18:43,020
Between the community.

444
00:18:43,022 --> 00:18:44,355
Competitive,
not competitive.

445
00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:46,090
You know,
they're razzing each other.

446
00:18:46,159 --> 00:18:48,893
You can hear them, right?
But they're all having fun.

447
00:18:48,895 --> 00:18:50,561
We're still big on
community and

448
00:18:50,563 --> 00:18:52,296
Bringing everybody together.

449
00:18:52,431 --> 00:18:56,366
See, it's guys and gals
and people of all ages.

450
00:18:56,402 --> 00:18:59,237
Well, I actually made a
couple of plays in the field.

451
00:18:59,372 --> 00:19:01,072
I got to bat.

452
00:19:01,207 --> 00:19:04,508
♪

453
00:19:04,577 --> 00:19:09,813
♪

454
00:19:09,883 --> 00:19:11,848
Here we go,
play ball!

455
00:19:11,885 --> 00:19:14,418
♪

456
00:19:14,454 --> 00:19:17,354
-[cheering]
-run!

457
00:19:17,423 --> 00:19:18,956
Out!

458
00:19:19,025 --> 00:19:20,424
[cheering & laughing]

459
00:19:20,426 --> 00:19:22,026
I didn't make it
past first base,

460
00:19:22,028 --> 00:19:23,393
But that's par
for the course.

461
00:19:23,429 --> 00:19:25,529
[laughing]

462
00:19:25,532 --> 00:19:28,199
[applauding]

463
00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:29,533
Good game,
good game.

464
00:19:29,602 --> 00:19:32,402
Good game, guys.
Good game.

465
00:19:32,438 --> 00:19:37,241
♪

466
00:19:37,243 --> 00:19:40,411
♪

467
00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,247
Forced from the land in
the cold water drama,

468
00:19:43,249 --> 00:19:46,450
The chippewa made purchase
in the township of rama.

469
00:19:46,452 --> 00:19:49,987
Farming rocky ground is
grueling, let's face it.

470
00:19:50,122 --> 00:19:52,256
As bleak as things
seemed, though,

471
00:19:52,258 --> 00:19:54,225
You made a bid
for the casino.

472
00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:57,328
The consensus is you
absolutely aced it.

473
00:19:57,330 --> 00:19:58,929
[laughing]

474
00:19:58,932 --> 00:20:02,566
Visual art and fishing is
represented in this nation.

475
00:20:02,602 --> 00:20:05,102
The fish are more
difficult to see.

476
00:20:05,171 --> 00:20:08,172
You milk the ones you catch
for future generations.

477
00:20:08,307 --> 00:20:10,307
You don't put that milk
in your tea.

478
00:20:10,376 --> 00:20:13,444
[laughing]

479
00:20:13,513 --> 00:20:16,214
I'll try saying
mino-bimaadiziwin.

480
00:20:16,349 --> 00:20:19,216
When catching dreams,
may you catch lots of them.

481
00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:22,420
The chippewas of rama
are here to stay...

482
00:20:22,422 --> 00:20:24,588
For despite being
moved around,

483
00:20:24,591 --> 00:20:27,291
You've grown roots
in rocky ground.

484
00:20:27,426 --> 00:20:29,393
Nothing sweeter
than home...

485
00:20:29,462 --> 00:20:31,996
And rama is
sweet home plate.

486
00:20:31,998 --> 00:20:33,197
Thanks for coming out,
everybody.

487
00:20:33,266 --> 00:20:34,598
You've been great!

488
00:20:34,601 --> 00:20:37,301
-[cheering & applauding]
-thank you so much.

489
00:20:37,303 --> 00:20:39,503
We'll see you again, rama.

490
00:20:39,505 --> 00:20:40,604
It was awesome.

491
00:20:40,607 --> 00:20:42,506
Really nice to see
everybody out here

492
00:20:42,508 --> 00:20:44,875
Having a good
time and laughing.

493
00:20:45,011 --> 00:20:50,214
♪

494
00:20:50,283 --> 00:20:54,485
♪

495
00:20:54,487 --> 00:20:55,286
He did a good job.

496
00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:56,486
You could tell that
he was like

497
00:20:56,522 --> 00:20:58,522
Really invested in looking.

498
00:20:58,524 --> 00:21:01,525
But when we did point out
a big pike in the distance,

499
00:21:01,527 --> 00:21:02,960
He was like,
"I don't see it."

500
00:21:02,962 --> 00:21:04,028
[laughing]

501
00:21:04,097 --> 00:21:06,297
And because I like to give
back to the community,

502
00:21:06,366 --> 00:21:08,566
I'm gonna- there's my tip,
there's my tip for you.

503
00:21:08,568 --> 00:21:11,235
Tip for the dealer!
Thank you very much.

504
00:21:11,370 --> 00:21:14,138
♪

505
00:21:14,207 --> 00:21:15,939
You guys go on.
I'm, I'm...

506
00:21:15,975 --> 00:21:17,975
I'm just gonna...
5 more minutes.

507
00:21:17,977 --> 00:21:19,510
♪

508
00:21:19,512 --> 00:21:21,878
Yeah, just go, go, go, go.